AI Learns a Patient’s Anatomy in Five Minutes to Align X-rays with 3D Scans
Surgeons and interventional radiologists rely on a deceptively simple question every time they guide a needle, a screw, or a catheter through the body: given...
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Drought-Hardy Cumin Ecotype Keeps Its Yield and Essential Oil When Water Runs Out
Cumin is one of the world’s most traded spices, and the aromatic oil locked inside its tiny seeds is the reason chefs, pharmacists and food...
Systematic Review Uncovers How ATM Gene Defects Shape Blood Cancers
A fault in one of the body’s most important DNA repair genes may be quietly steering the course of several devastating blood cancers, according to...
When Doctors Aren’t Sure: Diagnostic Uncertainty Drives Antibiotic Overuse in Rwanda’s Hospitals
Diagnostic uncertainty is quietly fueling one of the most stubborn drivers of antimicrobial resistance in low-resource settings, according to a new qualitative study of junior...
Tiny Iron Citrus Drug Carriers Aim Straight for Damaged Kidneys
Acute kidney injury is one of medicine’s most frustrating adversaries: a syndrome in which renal function collapses within hours, driving up mortality, prolonging hospital stays,...
Honeysuckle’s Hidden Chemistry: How a Classic Herbal Tea May Calm Gut Inflammation and Fight Colon Cancer
Honeysuckle flower buds, known in traditional Chinese medicine as Lonicerae Japonicae Flos, have been brewed into teas and decoctions for centuries to clear heat and...
Financial Hardship Emerges as a Hidden Late Effect for Young Cancer Survivors
Cancer survival has a price tag that rarely appears on any treatment plan. A new narrative review published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship argues...
Who Gets Comfort Care at the End? Stroke Study Reveals Stark Racial and Income Gaps
Mechanical thrombectomy has transformed the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. By threading a catheter through blood vessels to physically pull a clot out of the...
Fibroblast Protein GNL3 Emerges as Hidden Culprit in Chemotherapy Heart Damage
One of the most effective and widely used chemotherapy drugs in the world is also one of the most feared for a side effect that...
Woven to Heal: How Textiles Are Becoming the Next Frontier in Biomaterials
Textiles have quietly accompanied medicine for centuries, from simple linen bandages to silk sutures, but a sweeping new review argues that the humble fabric is...
Heavy Thinning Supercharges Forest Growth and Flips the Diversity-Productivity Rule
In the misty hills of Zhejiang Province, China, an experiment is quietly rewriting one of ecology’s most contested rules. For decades, scientists have debated whether...
Radiation Oncology’s Biggest Meeting Returns to Boston With Landmark Trials in Breast, Liver and Lung Cancer
BOSTON — The world’s largest gathering of radiation oncology professionals opens here this week, and the research lineup suggests the field is approaching an inflection...
New Turkish Tool Measures Nursing Students’ Awareness of Their Rights in Hospital Wards
Nursing students occupy one of the most precarious positions in modern healthcare. They work in real hospitals, on real wards, alongside real patients, yet they...
Century-Old Solvent Dichloromethane Emerges as Surprising Coupling Reagent for Amide Synthesis
One of the most familiar liquids in the organic chemistry laboratory has just revealed a hidden talent. Dichloromethane, a solvent that has been in routine...
Machine Learning Hunts Down Hidden Gene Switches Across the Fungal Tree of Life
Deep in the genomes of fungi lies a vast, unexplored library of molecular switches that control which genes are turned on and when. These switches,...